Facebook has tons of little applications to keep people occupied. "Click here to send a virtual potted plant and help save the rainforest." Or, "John wants you to join his gang on mafia wars."
A couple of months back lists became all the rage. "25 Random things you probably don't know about me" was the most popular. Like knowing you are about to see a car wreck I was drawn to reading my friends' 25 things. Some were so painfully lame I considered sending a sympathy card.
Or maybe a polite message like, "I'm deleting you as a FaceBook friend because you've finally proven what I've always suspected: You're boring."
The lists grew shorter: List the Top 5 worse people in history, Top 5 movies, Top 5 TV shows, etc.
Today, however, the Top 5 list hit an ultimate jump-the-shark low: 5 Things in my shower right now.
I have no idea what items you have in your bathroom and I don't care. If I'm visiting your place and happen to care I'll snoop around and find your Viagra stash... because that's much more interesting than reading a friend uses Pureology Nano Shampoo. (I didn't make that up...)
Pureology is a snobby over priced shampoo. My "Mother-in-law" left a half full shampoo and conditioner in the house and Frank's sister didn't miss the opportunity to tell me..."Don't throw away that shampoo....It is VERY EXPENSIVE." The very expensive was even spoken slowly and with accent, so a dullard like me could understand it.
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